Homeopathic Materia Medica

ASAFOETIDA

(asaf)

(Gum of the Stinkasand) The flatulence and spasmodic contraction of stomach and oesophagus with reverse peristalsis are the most marked symptoms. In its selection, its relation to the hysterical and hypochondriacal patients, must be borne in mind. Besides these superficial symptoms, it has been found to affect favorably deep ulcerations, caries of bones, especially in the syphilitic organism; here the EXTREME SENSITIVENESS and terrible throbbing, nightly pains, guiding to its use.

Head Irritable; complains of her troubles; sensitive. Boring above eyebrows. PRESSIVE PAIN FROM WITHIN OUTWARD.

Nose Syphilitic ozaena, with very offensive purulent discharge. CARIES OF NASAL BONES. (AURUM.) Throat. GLOBUS HYSTERICUS. Ball rises in throat. Sensation as if peristaltic motion were reversed, and oesophagus were driven from stomach to throat.

Stomach Great difficulty in bringing up wind. FLATULENCE AND REGURGITATION OF LIQUID. Hysterical flatulence. Great distention. Sensation of emptiness and weakness, with distention and beating in stomach and abdomen. Forcible eructation of gas. PULSATION IN PIT OF stomach. Violent gastralgia; cutting and burning in stomach and region of diaphragm. Gurgling and rolling of wind, which escapes afterwards with loud and difficult eructation.

Female Mammae turgid with milk in the unimpregnated. DEFICIENT MILK, with oversensitiveness.